{"id":87378,"date":"2026-06-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/?p=87378"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:23:09","slug":"elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-on-spacexs-first-day-of-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-on-spacexs-first-day-of-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk becomes world\u2019s first trillionaire on SpaceX\u2019s first day of trading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SpaceX, Elon Musk\u2019s rocket and artificial intelligence company, capped the biggest-ever initial public offering by rising 20 percent in its trading debut on Friday, turning the world\u2019s richest man into the first trillionaire and setting the stage for fast-growing A.I. companies to reach the stock market in a once-in-a-lifetime bonanza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX shares opened trading at $150, up from their I.P.O. price of $135, before closing the day at $161.11. That valued the company at more than $2 trillion, exceeding the market capitalizations of other titans of American industry, including Walmart and General Motors combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that size, the offering dethroned Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia\u2019s state-owned oil company, which was valued at $1.7 trillion and raised more than $29 billion when it went public in 2019. SpaceX raised $75 billion from its offering, more than the combined amount amassed by every other U.S. I.P.O. over the past two years, according to Renaissance Capital, a research and advisory firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pop in SpaceX\u2019s share price also catapulted Mr. Musk, 54, to trillionaire status. The entrepreneur, who not only leads SpaceX but also runs the electric carmaker Tesla and other businesses, has long been the planet\u2019s wealthiest person. But passing the trillionaire milestone is significant, further augmenting Mr. Musk\u2019s fortune and influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A coterie of Mr. Musk\u2019s friends and venture capital and private investment firms were enriched by the I.P.O., many by billions of dollars. Thousands of SpaceX employees instantly became millionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Musk spent Friday at the company\u2019s Starbase headquarters in Texas, where he celebrated with employees, family, friends and investors. \u201cIt is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public,\u201d he told them, referring to SpaceX\u2019s founding in 2002 in Southern California. \u201cI gave SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A SpaceX spokesman and Mr. Musk did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX\u2019s blockbuster I.P.O. paves the way for mega offerings by the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic, which are each valued at nearly $1 trillion. Never have three trillion-dollar entities gone public in the same year. Their stock market debuts could signal that a new era of corporate power has arrived, with SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic joining the pantheon of tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Netflix and Meta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For SpaceX, the first day of trading capped a long road. Mr. Musk founded the company 24 years ago with the idea of making humans a multiplanetary species. For years, his dreams of private spaceflight seemed to be out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mr. Musk has remade the space race with partly reusable rockets and transformed communication with the company\u2019s satellite internet service, Starlink. In February, SpaceX bought his A.I. company, xAI, which owned the social media platform X, creating a conglomerate of the tech billionaire\u2019s various interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Musk has used SpaceX as a kind of piggy bank over the last two decades, securing loans from the company to himself and relying on the firm to shore up several troubled businesses in his orbit. That was enabled partly because of Mr. Musk\u2019s iron grip on SpaceX; he controlled around 85 percent of the shareholder votes before the I.P.O. because of a class of supervoting shares and other corporate structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its I.P.O., SpaceX sold more than 555 million shares, a little more than 4 percent of the company\u2019s outstanding stock. The company and its bankers courted traditional institutional investors and encouraged wealthy individuals and retail investors to buy. Individual investors made up about 22.5 percent of the I.P.O., which was higher than usual, two people familiar with the offering said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX also wanted several indexes to change their rules so its shares would be included faster than normal, which would eventually compel managers of large index funds to buy up the stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX\u2019s stock price is expected to swing higher and lower in the weeks after its listing, not necessarily because of shifting opinions about the company but because of certain technicalities. SpaceX is expected to face high demand for its relatively low number of shares available, potentially leading to sharp price rises. That could change as investor enthusiasm dies down and more shares become available to trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.P. Morgan analysts said this week that the recent average I.P.O. share price increase stood at 32 percent after the first day of trading, but fell to a loss of 26 percent after 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Hanson, a portfolio manager at the investment firm Neuberger Berman who oversees a fund with a $200 million investment in SpaceX, said the speed at which SpaceX went public \u2014 six months from when Mr. Musk first announced his intentions \u2014 was an example of its executive team\u2019s \u201ctenacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see the team recognized by the public for what they have accomplished since their founding 24 years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, SpaceX, which has contracts with NASA and other federal agencies, has also faced questions about its business, including its spending and how it can justify its valuation. In its I.P.O. prospectus, the company reported that it had lost more than $4.9 billion last year, compared with a $791 million profit in 2024, because of increased expenditures on A.I. Revenue was $18.7 billion last year, up 33 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is valued at slightly less than SpaceX at just over $1.4 trillion, though it pulls in far more revenue and generates large profits. Last year, Meta\u2019s revenue totaled $201 billion, and profit was $60.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX has said it plans to use the money it raises from its I.P.O. to pay off loans and fund various moonshots, including Mr. Musk\u2019s goals of putting A.I. data centers into orbit, building a lunar factory and eventually sending humans to Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While skeptics have questioned whether these plans are feasible, Mr. Musk\u2019s fans abound. In New York, an excited crowd of several dozen people gathered outside the Nasdaq building in Times Square on Friday morning, including Zach Boucher, 45, who flew in from California overnight to see SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Boucher said he was buying more than 2,200 SpaceX shares through Wells Fargo and was \u201cnever going to sell \u2014 I\u2019m holding for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This moment is \u201clike getting in on the ground floor of GE or G.M., or being here when Microsoft opened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and 18 other banks served as underwriters for SpaceX\u2019s I.P.O. They were expected to earn a record $550 million in fees and have spent the last two weeks toasting Mr. Musk and his company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Goldman Sachs on Friday, the bank remade the lobby and cafeteria of its Manhattan offices with a space theme, replete with macaroons that looked like moon rocks and a mission control brunch with \u201cbig bang burritos.\u201d Not to be outdone, JPMorgan and SpaceX commissioned the artist Leo Villareal to create a celestial light show atop the bank\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX\u2019s celebration at Starbase was expected to continue into the night. Executives were set to address employees during a party, with least one bar on nearby South Padre Island reserved for festivities, according to a person familiar with the plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied the claims.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n